Result
Rep. Rita Mayfield (D-Waukegan) won a ninth term representing Illinois House District 60 on Nov. 3 as the only candidate on the ballot. No Republican filed for the seat, and Mayfield was also unopposed in the March 17 Democratic primary, where she drew 5,720 votes.
Her new two-year term begins Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2027, when the next General Assembly is sworn in. She has held the seat since July 2010, when local Democratic leaders appointed her after the death of state Rep. Eddie Washington, the Daily Herald reported at the time.
Candidates and Platforms
Mayfield, a former Waukegan school board member, chairs the House Appropriations-Public Safety Committee. This year she was the House sponsor of Senate Bill 2838, which requires hearing care plans to spell out their benefits in writing and bars them from setting prices for services and items they don’t cover.
The bill passed both chambers without a single no vote, and Gov. JB Pritzker signed it this summer, so it takes effect Jan. 1, 2027. In a June 1 recap of the spring session, Mayfield also highlighted a proposal to make digital coupon discounts available to every shopper, so customers pay the price they see.
She filed the Passenger Rail Planning Act in January, which would require the Illinois Department of Transportation to set train frequency targets, including hourly service on some routes out of Chicago. The bill includes no money for new trains or construction, and it has not advanced out of committee.
District and Chamber
District 60 covers Waukegan, North Chicago and part of Gurnee in Lake County, according to Mayfield’s campaign website. She also ran without a Republican opponent in 2018 and 2020.
All 118 House seats were on the ballot this year. Democrats, who held 78 seats going in, had won 80 by the morning after the election, with seven races still uncalled, Capitol News Illinois reported.
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